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package org.onosproject.bgpio.protocol;

import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
import org.onosproject.bgpio.exceptions.BgpParseException;
import org.onosproject.bgpio.types.BgpHeader;

/**
 * Abstraction of an entity providing BGP Message Reader.
 */
public interface BgpMessageReader<T> {

    /**
     * Reads the Objects in the BGP Message and Returns BGP Message.
     *
     * @param cb Channel Buffer
     * @param bgpHeader BGP message header
     * @return BGP Message
     * @throws BgpParseException while parsing BGP message.
     */
    T readFrom(ChannelBuffer cb, BgpHeader bgpHeader) throws BgpParseException;
}